31.03.2021

// When Lost in the Forest //

Stand still.

The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost.

Wherever you are is called Here.

And you must treat it as a powerful stranger;

Must ask permission to know it and be known.

The forest breathes.

Listen.

It answers.

I have made this place around you,

And if you leave it

You may come back again

Saying...

"Here,"

No two trees are the same to raven

No two branches are the same to wren

If what a tree or branch

Does is lost on you,

Then you are surely lost.

Stand still.

The forest knows where you are.

You must let it find you.

~ David Wagner

dryad dancing today in an old friend forest, found agai